List: Babies and the Diss

List inspired by seeing the cute university daycare kids in their snowsuits today. Oh, my uterus.

Ways that my dissertation is like a baby:

1. Long gestation period followed by difficult delivery process
2. Will likely weigh more than 5 lbs at birth/completion
3. Labour-intensive
   
4. Can bring it into department, all shiny and new, to show off to office staff and friends, admiring special details like footnotes/feet and fingers/appendices
   
5. Writing process makes me crave weird foods like beef jerky, cherry Coke, scrambled eggs, and yes, pickles. Expect pregnancy to be equally odd. Hopefully cravings will not include ice cream, as am lactose intolerant
   
6. Will be up late at night trying to put it to bed
7. Can't work on either during Department Council
8. Both will somehow have something to do with Jane Austen
   

Ways that my dissertation is not like a baby:

1. One is organic; the other is inorganic
   
2. One will take up all my time; the other is supposed to take up all my time
3. One will require me to cut back on consumption of caffeine and alcohol; the other will be alleviated and even enabled by consumption of said substances
4. Can't edit baby if unhappy with first version
5. Dissertation won't fit into cute CBC one-sie